‘No!’ Critique: A Fascinating UFO in Contemporary Cinema

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‘No!’

Manager jordan shell

interpreters Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun

premiere 18/08/22

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‘No!’ It’s similar to Jordan Peele’s two previous feature films, ‘Let Me Out’ and ‘Us’, in that it builds the horror plot (about racism or identity) out of a disturbing measure of time and tension and takes the minutes it takes to get down. business. ‘No!’ it works the same way, even more radical, so that after 20 or 30 minutes filmWe are still baffled by what has been offered to us.

But unlike the other two movies, this movie embraces classic sci-fi, but in this one too, Peele doesn’t marry anyone. The threat from outer space is displayed in a very different way than usual in titles such as ‘Ultimatum on Earth’, ‘War of the Worlds’ or ‘Mars attacks’. Peele manages to plunge us into a real nightmare in the most normal way of the world. Even in all the passages where it all seems like a great joke based on the director’s origins as a comedian. But not at all. This is Peele’s secret, he was able to build a very distinctive style in just three films. This is the best of ‘No!’ Fortunately, it’s a hard movie to tag.

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There is no lack of thought on the issue of race, even though the story takes place far from major urban areas and there is no ‘Get me out’ distinction in any corner of history. The action takes place in an inland area of ​​California and the protagonists are two young black brothers who run a ranch with horses trained to participate in the movies. The time of the second sequence of the movie is extraordinary in terms of measuring the silence of the place. -It’s been a long time since the tense stillness was captured so well, that moment when you knew something was going to happen but didn’t know how or when… and an unexpected event from heaven.

From this moment of sheer oddity, the story evolves around the possible appearance of an unidentified flying object whose gradual emergence on the screen is fascinating. Between the craftsmanship of the B series and the digital resources of our time well spentIt’s full of characters as diverse as the filmmaker who wants to capture a UFO with his camera before he dies, or an Asian businessman who had a traumatic experience as a child. This experience is the first sequence of the movie in which it is inappropriate to explain more than the presence of a chimpanzee on a television set: one of the best moments of contemporary cinema.

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